Andrews, William L., ed., The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, W. W. Norton & Co., 1997.

Andrews collects writing of the American South from
the seventeenth century to the present. This anthology
contains poetry, sermons, short fiction, songs,
excerpts from novels, criticism, and nonfiction.

Carr, Virginia Spence, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, Carroll & Graf, 1985.

Originally published in 1975, this biography presents
the tragic events and circumstances of McCullers's
life. Carr demonstrates how these events influenced
McCullers's fiction.

McCullers, Carson, Collected Stories: Including "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

This book contains McCullers's short works including
the short novel The Member of the Wedding. At
more than four hundred pages, this book allows the
student of McCullers's writing to compare and contrast
the author's works.

O'Connor, Flannery, The Complete Stories, Noonday Press, 1996.

Flannery O'Connor is an...